Restaurants near Venice Beach Retreat 2

Nice location, ask for the Sunset room and if possible near a window overlooking the beach, if at night don't bother, too dark in the winter. Excellent ambiance, started with eggplant dip and yummy poof pita/pizza dough bread, gem salad (dressing excellent). A vodka sauce on the pasta was excellent and the burrata pizza was very mild not too intense in flavor, but light and tasty. The evening ended with an affogato which was made perfectly, with a caramel at the bottom of the ice-cream, and the expresso! Good coffee, great meal, will return to try other items.

The mushroom calamari and Cauliflower cacio e pepe were the standouts. But everything we ordered was delicious.

Food & drinks (both boozy and non-boozy) were delicious. We had a large table of 10 people and one person canceled - they had no issue with this and didn't require a deposit, but they did include a service charge which was totally sensible. A bit dark in the covered patio area, so you may need your phones to read the menus, but otherwise very lovely, large, airy setting and nicely heated. We had an early reservation, so it wasn't as noisy/bustling as I've seen it before. They were out of a couple of things on the drink menu - maybe not as stocked up due to the less busy holiday weekend? We had the seafood tower, multiple starters and sides, in addition to a variety of their mains and everything had really balanced flavors and textures. I even really enjoyed the lamb and I'm normally not that into lamb. Highly recommend for a large group for dinner. They do have a dessert menu that looked interesting but we did not try it (my favorite Wanderlust ice cream shop is nearby so we did that instead). Wait staff was very patient despite some of our indecisive guests, lol. Everyone was able to find street parking close by (but it was an early dinner on a holiday weekend).

Inventive food, wonderful flavors and a menu few retardants can match in its breakfast to dinner offerings - always a pleasure coming here.

The sushi was excellent! Our server, Katie was very attentive. The hot Sake was delicious. We especially loved the Ikura sushi!